Schools in Zip Code 56046

ZIP code 56046 contains exactly one school, Lonsdale Pre K-6, an elementary school serving grades PK–6 with 331 students in Lonsdale, Minnesota, part of the Tri-City United School District. Because the ZIP has no middle or high school, the local data ends at grade 6, and with no in-ZIP peer schools, the only benchmarks available are the district and the state. The district itself ranks 206 of 458 in Minnesota, at the 55th percentile with 3 stars. The school's student-teacher ratio is 13.6, and its free/reduced lunch rate was 23.56% in 2024–25.

Math is the clear bright spot. Third grade math is the strongest result in the data at 68.9% proficient, which is 12.2 points above the district and 11.0 points above the state. Fourth grade math is 51.2%, or 8.9 points above district, though 4.0 points below state, and fourth grade reading is 46.3%, 7.1 points above district and 2.5 points below state. All-grades math is 44.6%, 6.5 points above the district's 38.1% and nearly tied with the state's 44.9%.

Reading and science are weaker. All-grades reading is 42.5%, below district (46.7%) and state (48.6%), and science is persistently low at 21.6%, also below both. Sixth grade is the biggest concern: 22.2% in math, 17.3 points below state, and 39.1% in reading, 14.3 points below state. Scores also slipped faster than the district or state from 2024–25 to 2025–26, with math down 7.32 points and reading down 7.5 points. As a result, the school's rank fell from the 60th percentile with 3 stars in 2023–24 to the 40th percentile with 2 stars in 2025–26. Overall, early-grade math is genuinely strong, while upper-grade math, reading, and science need attention.